Bar mitzva

Spirit of Herzl: Central Jerusalem hotel with history, comics, and charm

Explore Jerusalem from the Spirit of Herzl Hotel, where Zionist comics line the halls and history meets comfort in a central location.

JANUARY 18, 2026|ByHOWARD BLAS

Bar Mitzvah in Israel: Why more families are choosing Israel for their Bar Mitzvah celebrations

JANUARY 7, 2026|ByISAAC KAPLAN

Kemran Hekmati, pictured in a family photo. Iran charged the 70-year-old Jewish Iranian-American for traveling to Israel.

Iran arrests Iranian-American Jew for visiting Israel - NYT

Hekmati, a 70-year-old resident of Long Island, New York, has been held in Evin Prison since July.

NOVEMBER 7, 2025|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

An IDF orphan, wearing a beret from the Nachal Brigade, celebrating his bar mitzvah at the Kotel in Jerusalem, October 20, 2025.

Forty-eight IDF orphans mark bnei mitzvah at Western Wall

Forty-eight children who lost a parent in IDF service marked their bnei mitzvah at the Western Wall in a ceremony of unity and remembrance.

OCTOBER 21, 2025|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

TikToker rates kitschy bar mitzvah t-shirts, goes viral

One video, which has received nearly 350,000 views on the app as of Thursday, sees the TikToker rate each of the shirts in creativity and how it's presented in her personal opinion.

AUGUST 18, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

TikTok app is seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken, July 13, 2021.

To those whose Bar and bat mitzvahs were disrupted by haredi hooligans, I share your fury

My Zionism doesn’t stop if I’m not forever enchanted; my Zionism survives the good, the bad and the ugly.

AUGUST 2, 2022ByGIL TROY

WHEN POLICE unfairly arrested women praying at the Western Wall, Natan Sharansky fumed: It cannot be that ‘Israel, the Jewish state, is the only place in the world where women are arrested for praying Hallel.’

The writing was on the wall about violence at the Kotel - opinion

This past Rosh Hodesh, a group of rowdy and misled teens, who came to protest the monthly Women of the Wall event, blew up a bar mitzvah celebration.

JULY 16, 2022ByLEAH AHARONI

ANAT HOFFMAN holds a Torah scroll at a Western Wall prayer service on the occasion of Rosh Hodesh. The very people who have turned the Kotel into a battleground are now crying foul, says the writer.

Is ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’ the first good bar/bat mitzvah movie?

'Cha Cha Real Smooth', a low-key charmer from 25-year-old writer-director-star Cooper Raiff that opens Friday in theaters and on Apple TV+.

JUNE 16, 2022ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA

Cooper Raiff and Dakota Johnson in "Cha Cha Real Smooth."

Bieber, Beckham, Kim Kardashian to travel to Galilee - report

Beckham and Bieber are reportedly making the trip to attend the Bar Mitzvah of the son of businessman Shaul Nakash at the Sea of Galilee.

MAY 27, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’ explores love, awkwardness on the bar mitzvah circuit

It’s an unlikely vocation for a character who isn’t Jewish, especially one created and played by someone who isn’t, either.

JANUARY 29, 2022BySTEPHEN SILVER/JTA

Yad Vashem's Bar/Bat Mitzvah program keeps Holocaust memory alive

At Yad Vashem, concern over how the Holocaust would remain an integral part of the Jewish consciousness once there were no longer any survivors prompted the start of the twinning program.

JANUARY 20, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN